chemicals management
The following section lists all institutions, which could be identified to be currently in-volved in the management of hazardous substances, as well as in charge of chemicals and biological safety
Schematic institutional setup on Federal and Regional level (example St. Petersburg)
Further explanations can be found on the following pages. Included in this text are or-ganizations of experts which have been consulted during the preparation of this docu-ment. See also Reference [1].
I. Ministries
State Policy of Biological and Chemical Safety in Russian Federation
II. Federal Services
Controlling implementation of State policy in the field of biological and chemical safety
III. Federal Agencies
Implementation of activities in fulfillment of state policy in biological and chemical safety
Territorial divisions of the Federal Services and Agencies
Neva-Ladoga Basin Water Authority is the Territorial Departmentof water management in the Baltic Sea region (Neva river, Narva river, etc. ) on the territory of St.-Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Kaliningrad Region,
Novgorod Region, Pskov Region, Republic of Kareliaof RosVodResursy on interregional level.
St.-Petersburg City Administration.
Committee for Nature Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety
Baltic Special Marine Inspection of
St.-Petersburg
State Unitary Enterprise
“Vodokanal of St.-Petersburg”
Federal levelRegional level (Example: St. Petersburg)
St.-Petersburg NGO “Environment and Business”
Additional bodies, specific for St. Petersburg
A. Federal level
I. Ministries – State Policy of Biological and Chemical Safety in Russian Federation
1. Ministry of Health Protection and social development
http://www.minzdravsoc.ru ß
Ensuring biological and chemical safety of population in the Russian Federation
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Exercising normative regulation in sanitary and epidemiological welfare of population
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Development and confirmation of Hygienic Regulations, MPC for air and MPC for
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cultural and household water bodies 2. Ministry of Agriculture
http://www.mcx.ru ß
Exercising normative regulation in veterinary and phytosanitary welfare
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Protection of animals and plants in agricultural farms from hazardous substances
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and chemicals management in agriculture
3. Ministry of defense
http://www.mil.ru ß
Protection of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from hazardous substances
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and chemicals
4. Ministry of Emergency (Civil defense)
http://www.mchs.gov.ru ß
Implementing environmental monitoring system in significant sites, evaluation and
> forecasting of possible pollution areas by hazardous substances in civil defense cases (jointly with RosPotrebNadzor and RosSelhozNadzor)
5. Ministry of industry and trade – initiated the draft Chemical regulation that had been submitted to the Parliament (currently suspended from adoption)
http://www.minprom.gov.ru ß
Fulfillment of requirements of the Convention about biological weapon prohibition
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and the Convention about chemical weapon prohibition
Implementation of activities regarding significant biological and chemical sites for
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reducing their negative impact from technological processes, products and waste products on public health and environment (as well as with RosTechNadzor and Ministry of Emergency)
The Russian Union of Chemists (Russian Chemists Union on the web-page) – Asso-ciation of chemical industries is in close contact with the Ministry and took part in de-veloping the Draft Chemical Safety Regulation (Draft Technical Regulation on Chemi-cal Safety). They organize workshops and train industries on the topic of REACH requirements, implications on Russian exporters, and registration of chemicals.
http://www.ruschemunion.ru ß
6. Ministry of natural resources and Environment
http://www.mnr.gov.ru ß
Development of Technical Regulations defining the requirements for chemical
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safety on technical installations
Development of methodologies and rules for setting of MPC and normative
per->
missible discharge/emission (NPD/NPE) 7. Ministry of Foreign affairs
http://www.mid.ru ß
Ensuring biological and chemical safety in the Russian Federation at international
> level
Co-ordinating Russia’s obligations under international treaties
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8. Ministry of internal affairs
http://www.mvd.ru ß
Protection of extra significant state-owned sites using operating with hazardous
> substance and chemicals
9. Ministry of transport
http://www.mintrans.ru ß
Ensuring safety on all types of transportation used for hazardous biological and
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chemical cargo
10. Ministry of Economic development
http://www.economy.gov.ru ß
Endorsement of Target Program projects regarding biological and chemical safety
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in the Russian Federation (jointly with Ministry of Education and Science) 11. Ministry of Education and science
http://www.mon.gov.ru ß
Coordination of scientific and research activities that may contribute to biological
> and chemical safety in the Russian Federation
II. Federal Services – Controlling implementation of State policy in the field of biological and chemical safety
1. Federal service for surveillance in Protection of Consumer rights and Human Welfare (rosPotrebnadzor)
http://www.rospotrebnadzor.ru ß
Supervision over State policy implementation in connection with public health
pro->
tection and ensuring sanitary and epidemiological welfare of population
Development and implementation of National Standards and Technical Regulations
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determining the requirements to biological and chemical safety on technical sites 1.1 Federal state institution for Health Protection (FguZ) “russian register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Substances (RRPHCBS)”
http://www.rpohv.ru ß
Conduction of studies on toxicity and hazard assessment of chemical and
biologi-> cal substances
Providing comprehensive information about properties of substances, regulation
> systems for safe handling of chemicals on the RF territory Development of safety passports (i.e. Safety Data Sheets)
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Development and maintenance of a database on chemicals handled on the
terri->
tory of Russian Federation (database “Hazardous Substances”) 1.2 FguZ “the Centre for Hygiene and Epidemiology (CHE)”
Conduction of sanitary and epidemiological evaluation; research, tests,
toxicologi->
cal, hygienic and other assessments.
2. Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (rosselhoznadzor)
http://fsvps.ru ß
State control for safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals
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State control for protection of agricultural lands from their pollution by hazardous
>
chemical substances
3. Federal service for technical and Export Control (FstEC)
http://www.fstec.ru ß
Development of draft specifications on biological and chemical products that
re-> quire export control
Ensuring conduction of export control
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4. Federal Service for Safety (FSS)
http://www.gan.ru ß
Creating database on biological and chemical safety of Russian Federation including
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information about transnational terrorist threats (jointly with Ministry of Civil Defense and Ministry for Internal Affairs)
5. Federal service for Environmental, technological and nuclear surveillance (rostechnadzor)
http://www.fsetan.ru ß
Control and surveillance on safety of industrial sites using hazardous chemicals
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Registration of hazardous industrial site and administrating the state register for
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such sites
5.1 Centre for Laboratory analysis and technical instrumentation (CLati) http://www.clati.ru
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Development of passport for hazardous waste products
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6. Federal service for nature Management surveillance (rosPrirodnadzor)
http://www.rpn.gov.ru ß
Control and surveillance of use of fauna, forests, water resources and ensuring
> biological and chemical safety in the Russian Federation
7. Federal service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (rosHydroMet)
http://www.meteorf.ru ß
Monitoring of environment, air and water
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Urgent messaging of information about environment pollution including chemical
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contamination
8. Federal intelligence service (Fis)
http://fsb.ru ß
Ensuring protection of the Russian Federation against external biological and
> chemical threats
III. Federal Agencies – Implementation of activities in fulfillment of state policy in biological and chemical safety
1. Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) under the Ministry of Health Protection and social development
http://www.fmbaros.ru ß
Monitoring of hazardous natural pathogens and chemical substances as well as
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diseases caused by them
Ensuring protection of population from hazardous biological agents and chemical
>
substances
1.1 small state Enterprise (MgP) “regional toxicological and Hygienic information Centre “ (TOXI) [Expert: V. Smirnov]
On one hand it belongs to the ministerial subdivision within the Ministry of Health, on the other hand, not inside of the governmental structure which allows expressing independent views and come up with critical assessment of governmental initiatives.
It does function in a close interaction with ministerial divisions both at the federal and regional (agency) levels, however capable of developing strategy documents and re-search on innovative solutions (IT models). TOXI has its own accredited laboratory for radioactivity and chemical tests. It has a regional status, therefore may cover larger area than only St.Petersburg
Calculation methods for a feasibility of MPC of chemical substance for
> various environmental media
Assessment of combined effect of chemical substance on the
environ-> ment and human health
Impact assessment of chemical substance loss by transit
> Development and implementation of accountability mechanisms of
chemi-> cal substance by transport
Development of integrated environmental and hygienic regulation of
chem-> ical substance circle
Development of methods for environmental impact and human health
as-> sessment
Development of information monitoring systems of potentially hazardous
> substances, waste and dangerous goods transport
Evaluation of technological methods for the control of hazardous
sub-> stance handling
Sanitary-hygienic expertise:
> Sanitary hygienic examination of production, protection and treatment
> plants, agricultural lands;
Sanitary hygienic expertise with issuing certificates transmitting and
> antenna-feeder devices
2. Federal agency on science and innovations (rosnauka)
http://www.fasi.gov.ru ß
Organization and ensuring implementation of research, technical and innovation
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projects for improved biological and chemical safety in the Russian Federation 3. Federal agency on technical regulation and Metrology
(rostechregulirovanie)
http://www.gost.ru ß
Examination and preparation of technical reviews of draft federal target programs
> in connection with negative impacts of hazardous biological agents and chemical substances on humans and environment
4. Federal Agency of Water Resources (RosVodResursy)
http://voda.mnr.gov.ru ß
Activities on water resources protection for biological and chemical safety
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5. Federal agency of Forestry (rosLesHoz)
http://www.rosleshoz.gov.ru/
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Monitoring of forests
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6. Federal agency of Fishering (rosrybolovstvo)
http://www.fishcom.ru/
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Development and issuing MPC values for fishery water bodies
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Federal services and federal agencies like RosPotrebNadzor, RosTechNadzor, RosPrirod-Nadzor, RosVodResursy etc. have their representations (called Territorial Departments) in each subject of the Russian Federation on regional (local) level. St.-Petersburg is a sepa-rate subject of the Russian Federation and has regional status like Moscow, Karelia.
Saint-Petersburg is also an administrative centre of the North-West Federal District, which is a unit of presidential power delegation. North-West Federal District has a seat of the Plenipotentiary Rep-resentative of the President of the Russian Federation whose function is to represent the RF Presi-dent within the NWFD and ensure implementation of constitutional authority of the head of the state within the District. This division does not interfere with the distribution of the functions listed above.
For the ministerial divisions the following division applies:
Federal level (consisting of 83 Federal Subjects – see further here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia ß
B. REGIONAL (Subject of the Russian Federation) LEVEL St.�Petersburg
I. State governing bodies, state unitary establishments
1. territorial departments of Federal services and Federal agencies
1.1 Neva-Ladoga Basin Water Authority is Territorial Department of RosVodResursy on interregional level.
http://voda.mnr.gov.ru ß
State water management in the Baltic Sea region (Neva river, Narva river, etc. ) on
>
the territory of St.-Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Kaliningrad Region, Novgorod Region, Pskov Region, Republic of Karelia
2. st.-Petersburg City administration. Committee for nature Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological safety
http://gov.spb.ru ß
State and regional environmental control for air, water resources, soil, industrial
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waste (incl. hazardous and radioactive wastes) on the territory of St.-Petersburg (for the sites outside of federal jurisdiction)
State environmental examination (ecological expertise) on the territory of
St.-Pe-> tersburg
Development of Ecological Passport of St.-Petersburg
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Currently this Committee co-ordinates development of the Concept and further on, Pro-gramme of chemical and biological safety for Saint-Petersburg. This activity is executed in compliance with the Federal Target Programme on chemical and biological safety. It sets legal obligations upon each subject of the Russian Federation (regional level) to develop such target programme by each subject of the RF.
Berezin is the focal person in co-coordinating the working group that jointly reviews re-sults of the contracted work (currently Concept, further on the Programme).
3. Baltic Special Marine Inspection of St.-Petersburg
State control of compliance with transport legislation and environmental
require-> ments on sea shipping and other waterways
4. State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal of St.�Petersburg”
http://www.vodokanal.spb.ru ß
Implementation of projects regarding reduction of water pollution (biogens: N, P)
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discharge to Baltic Sea to comply with the HELCOM requirements
Endorsement of projects of normative permissible discharges (NPD) to municipal
> sewage system for enterprises of St.-Petersburg
Restriction of discharge into sewers of certain chemicals (partly following
HEL->
COM recommendations) in concentrations above the established MPCs (PDKs).
II. Nongovernmental organizations (NGO)
1. St.�Petersburg NGO “Environment and Business”
http://www.helcom.ru ß
Collection, analysis and systematization of information regarding environmental
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status of the Russian area of the Baltic Sea under the Helsinki Convention. Pre-pares reports on Russia’s compliance with its HELCOM obligations for submission to HELCOM Secretariat;
Collection, analysis and reporting for Russia as a leading party on compliance of
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the HELCOM parties with HELCOM Recommendation 23/7 on Reduction of dis-charges and emissions from the metal surface treatment;
Taking part in preparation of HELCOM JCP for Russia
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Implementation of programs, projects following HELCOM resolutions
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Implementation of BALTHAZAR (reduction hazardous and agricultural wastes on
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Baltic sea) project from Russian side
References
In the following, frequently recurring references are listed. Those references not listed here are marked in footnotes at the relevant places in the text. All websites and online documents were last accessed on 01 March, 2010.
[1] Information given by Russian expert at meetings in May (Tallinn) and November (Riga) 2009 The consulted experts include the following persons:
Igor Berezin: Head of the department. Emergency Response Co-ordination depart-ment, Saint-Petersburg Committee for Nature use, environmental protec-tion and ecological safety. Mr. Berezin is in charge of developing regional programme within chemical, biological and radiation safety in the area of Saint-Petersburg.
Igor Kukushkin: Executive Director, Russian Union of Chemists, Member of the Intergovernmental Council of the CIS on standardisation and metrology (WG on REACH and GHS implementation in the CIS countries).The Union represents in-dustrial organisations of the Russian chemical sector. It has been assigned the role of National co-ordinator for the development of Chemical Safety Concept and is a member of the “Responsible Care Initiative”. The Union is the leader within REACH educational services and already has provided about 30 workshops. A Co-ordination and Information Centre assisting CIS companies in the issues of products chemical safety has been established with participation of the Russian Union of Chemists and two research institutions.
Viacheslav Smirnov: Director, Regional Toxicological Information Centre “TOXI”, PhD Med., UNIDO expert. Mr. Smirnov is professionally working with toxicology and environmental protection.
Alexander Startsev: Director General, UNIDO North –Western International Clean-er Production Centre, expClean-ert of the Public Council of RosPrirodNadzor. Besides managing the North-West CPC has other roles at a political level within chemical safety issues assisting Deputy Chairman of the Environmental Committee of the State Duma of RF. He is an expert of the Top-level Environmental Council in Saint-Petersburg and represents Ministry of natural resources at the Public Council of RosPrirodNadzor.
[2] Web-page of Russian Register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Substances (http://rpohv.ru/lang/en/)
[3] XuMuK.ru. Article 6.2 „Control of pollutants in water bodies“ (in Russian). http://
www.xumuk.ru/ecochem/18.html
[4] O. F. Filenko: Biologicheskie metody v kontrole kachestva okruzhayushey sredy.
Ekologicheskie sistemy i pribory No. 6. 2007 g. [Biological methods for controlling the quality of the environment. Ecologcial systems and equipment No. 6/2007].
www.ecoguild.ru/docs/2007-06-18-20.doc
[5] RosHydroMet. Handbook on monitoring of pesticides in the environment. Part II.
2008 (in Russian)
[6] Results of BACCON Rus 1 project, October 2004 - December 2005. More informa-tion available from the Baltic Environmetal Forum Latvia, Riga. http://www.bef.lv.
[7] Informacionnoe pis’mo Departamenta Gossanepidnadzora Minzdrava RF ot 7 av-gusta 1997 g. N i/109-111 “O spiske prioritetnykh veshchestv, soderzhashchikhsya v okruzhayushej srede i ikh vliyanie na zdrov’e naseleniya” [Informational letter of the Department Gossanepidnadzor of the Ministry of Health of thr Russian Federa-tion of 7 August, 1997. N i/109-111 “About the list of pirority substances occurring in the environment and their influence on the health of the population”]
[8] Results of HES II Project (2007-2009). Report 10-5. http://www.ippc-russia.org
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